Local Entrepreneur Brings Higher Standard of Home Care to Marina del Rey

Local entrepreneur Paul Chung is fulfilling his desire to help make a difference in people’s lives by acquiring an in-home care franchise. BrightStar Care of Santa Monica/Marina del Rey provides a range of compassionate, person-centered medical and non-medical care to people of all ages in the safety and comfort of their own homes.

“My family taught me the value of taking care of our aging loved ones, and my investment in BrightStar Care allows me to apply those values while helping members of my community,” said Chung, who also owns BrightStar Care of Manhattan Beach/Torrance. “As a company, BrightStar Care came with a lot of praise from fellow industry professionals whom I greatly respect. I knew this was the right fit for me.”

BrightStar Care of Santa Monica/Marina del Rey serves the greater Westside and South Bay areas of Los Angeles. The agency, which is part of a network of over 300 franchise locations nationwide, offers a range of care services. The national BrightStar Care brand has a commitment to clinical quality standards that are evident by its recent Enterprise Champion for Quality award from The Joint Commission, which the company has earned every year since the award’s inception. The Joint Commission is the oldest and largest nationally recognized health care quality standards organization. This prestigious distinction is awarded to select franchisors with a proven commitment to the highest level of quality and safety demonstrated by the fact that at least 95 percent of all eligible BrightStar Care franchisees are accredited and in good standing with The Joint Commission – which includes BrightStar Care of Santa Monica/Marina del Rey.

Recently, BrightStar Care also was honored with the 2017 ‘Best of Home Care Endorsed National Provider’ award from Home Care Pulse – a direct result of customer and employee feedback regarding the company’s superior service offerings and desirable employment. BrightStar Care of Santa Monica/Marina del Rey took home Provider of Choice – an award granted only to the top-ranking home care providers, based on client satisfaction scores gathered by Home Care Pulse.

BrightStar Care of Santa Monica/Marina del Rey’s Registered Nurse Director of Nursing, Giovanna (Gio) Santori, creates unique, personalized plans of care for each client and oversees a professional care team of well-qualified, experienced caregivers to deliver expert, compassionate, and personal care 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Santori graduated from University of San Francisco with her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing Science in 2010 and has worked in the home healthcare field with BrightStar Care for the last 6 years.

For more information, BrightStar Care of Santa Monica/Marina del Rey can be reached at 310.944.6985 or losangeles@brightstarcare.com.

About BrightStar Care

Based in Chicago, BrightStar Care is a national private duty home care and medical staffing franchise with more than 300 locations which provide medical and non-medical services to clients within their homes, as well as supplemental care staff to corporate clients. BrightStar Care franchise locations across the country employ over 2,500 registered nurses who play a unique role in overseeing the care for each individual client, a service that no other private duty home care provider offers. In addition, BrightStar Care is the only national home care franchise to receive The Joint Commission’s Enterprise Champion for Quality award every year since the award’s inception. In 2017, the company ranked No. 69 on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500 list and was included for the tenth consecutive year on Inc. Magazine’s prestigious Inc. 5000 list. For more information on BrightStar Care please visit www.brightstarcare.com; to find out more about BrightStar Care Franchising, visit www.franchise.brightstarcare.com.